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- He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- I don’t think God gives a shit if we have a dog or if a woman wears shorts. I think He gives a shit about whether you’re a good person.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.
- John Green, Vlogbrothers, A Surreal Descent into Madness: Reviewing Childrens TV, 04-10-12
- In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.
- John Green, Vlogbrothers, Dumping My 15-Year-Old Girlfriend, 09-24-13
- Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question.
- John Green, Vlogbrothers, Dumping My 15-Year-Old Girlfriend, 09-24-13
- Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.
- Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
- That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Family's A Gamble Part 5, 07-25-13
- Sadness is poetic. You're lucky to live sad moments. When you let yourself be sad, your body has antibodies. It has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness.
- C. K. Louis, The Conan O'Brien Show, 09-20-13
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